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No Big Deal, or a Big Deal?

This week LTG (our parent company) announced the formal acceptance of their bid to acquire NetDimensions. Depending on who you are and what you know, this may or may not seem like a big deal, or even a potential threat. I wanted to quickly, publicly,…

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cmi5 is live in SCORM Cloud

Today we’re excited to announce support for a new specification in SCORM Cloud- cmi5, which is something that doesn’t happen all that often in its history. Along with making cmi5 support readily available in SCORM Cloud, we’ve also added support for cmi5 to some of…

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Twelve Months Later…

About a year ago today, Learning Technologies Group purchased Rustici Software outright, and invested in the simultaneously spun off Watershed. I can happily say a year later that I’m actually glad we sold the company. It’s true, if we were selling today, based on the…

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The first official Family Meal

We kicked off a new event here last week that we're calling Family Meal. Around here, we place a premium on intentional time together. We feel it’s important and it matters. In an effort to mix things up and continue to evolve culturally as a…

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The Evolution of Industries

The parallels between television and elearning are abundant. I mean, who doesn’t love sitting down on a Friday night to watch the best elearning they couldn’t get to all week? Really, though, there are plenty of legitimate parallels, and one of the things I like…

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aaS Matters

Back in January, Mike and I sold Rustici Software to a British company called LTG. One thing I “learned” in that process is that recurring revenue is very valuable to a company (or its owners). As a business, we sell several products on term licenses,…

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Equivalencies… Language or Otherwise

I can’t think of a single LMS that handles language support elegantly. Yes, many of them have a setting whereby a person who speaks another language can reconfigure the interface to reflect their preferred language. But very few LMSs allow a learner to switch the…

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More of the same

Welcome to week one of the post-acquisition Rustici Software world. I just thought I’d take a moment here to discuss one of the reasons we agreed to sell Rustici Software to LTG, because it’s not all about the money. Mike and I were seeking investment…

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Big news from Rustici Software

Today, I want to share a piece of news that’s really exciting for us. As of this morning, Rustici Software has been acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), a publicly listed learning technologies agency made up of specialist digital learning businesses. As a part…

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Adobe Captivate 9 + Cloud – One click testing is here!

“When we were looking out for partners to validate content created with Adobe Captivate, Rustici Software was the automatic choice. With the SCORM Cloud now integrated within Adobe Captivate 9, our users can now validate their eLearning content easily” -Akshay Bharadwaj -Senior Product Manager –…

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Regarding The US-EU Safe Harbor Framework and Privacy Shield

Update for May 12th, 2016:  We are continuing to observe the situation. The European Commission has released details of the new Privacy Shield Framework designed to heighten protections for transferring European Union residents’ personal data to the U.S. Procedural barriers still inhibit its approval, but…

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